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Week 4. Hort I House Plants. Maranta leuconeura var. kerchoviana. Common Name: Prayer Plant Habit: Horizontal, Pendulous Origin: South America Form: Oval - horizontal Texture: Medium - coarse Landscape Uses: Hanging basket, Indoor plant. Form : Simple Arrangement: Alternate
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Week 4 Hort I House Plants
Marantaleuconeura var. kerchoviana • Common Name: Prayer Plant • Habit: Horizontal, Pendulous • Origin: South America • Form: Oval - horizontal • Texture: Medium - coarse • Landscape Uses: Hanging basket, Indoor plant
Form: Simple • Arrangement: Alternate • Texture / venation: Soft flexible, Pinnatevenation • Shapes: Oblong • Apices: Acute, Rounded, Truncate • Bases: Obtuse • Margins: Entire
Raceme White Flower • No Fruit
The Prayer Plant gets it’s name for it’s unique habit of raising their leaves to an upright position at night time. The leaves fold together like hands during prayer! • plant prefers bright indirect sunlight, but is generally tolerant of lower light areas. • Propagation by division mainly
NEPHROLEPIS EXALTATA cv. • Neff – row – LEP – iss ex – all – TAH – tah • Common Name:Boston Fern • Family: Polypodiaceae • Native: Tropical America
Life Cycle: Annual • Growth Habit: House plant • Leaf Arrangement: Basal • Leaf Shape: Linear • Leaf Margin: Crenate • Vein Pattern: Pinnate • *Leaves are called Fronds
Flower: None - gymnosperm • Fruit: None - produces spores • Roots: Fibrous • Growth: Medium • Light Exposure: Part shade to shade • Zone: Tropical
Philodendron scandens var. oxycardium • Common Name:Parlor Ivy/Heart Leaf Philodendron • Family: Araceae • Native: Puerto Rico
Life Cycle: Annual • Growth Habit: Vine • Leaf Arrangement: Alternate • Leaf Shape: Cordate • Lear Margin: Entire • Vein Pattern: Pinnate • Simple
Flower: Insignificant • Root: Fibruous & Aerial • Environment: Shade • Growth: Medium • Zones: 10-11
DESCRIPTION • New leaf will be enclosed in bronze sheath that will hang loose on new growth and fall off on old growth
Plectranthusaustralis • Common Name: Swedish Ivy • Key ID Features: Trailing plant with opposite, ovate, veiny, dark green leaves on long petioles with stipules at the base.
Habit: Pendulous, Dense, Spreading • Origin: Australia / New Zealand • Form: Mounded, Weeping • Texture: Medium – coarse • Landscape Uses: Bedding plant, Container planting, Hanging basket, Indoor plant
Form: Simple • Arrangement: Opposite • Shapes: Ovate • Apices: Acute • Bases: Attenuate • Margins: Crenate • Palmate Veins • Flowers are on spikes
SAINTPAULIA IONANTHA • Saint – PAUL – ee – ah eye – on – NAN – thuh • Common Name: African Violet • Family: Gesneriacae • Native: Tanganyika, Africa
Life Cycle: Annual • Growth Habit: House Plant • Leaf Arrangement: Rosette (stairstep) • Leaf Shape: Ovate • Leaf Margin: Entire • Vein PatternPinnate • Simple
FLOWER • Purple, White, or Pink • Head Shape
Stems: Pubescent (as well as leaves) • Roots: Fibrous • Growth: Slow • Light Exposure: South Facing Window
CULTURAL PRACTICES • Water from the underneath so it won’t rot
Schefflera arboricola • Common Name: Dwarf Schefflera • Family: Araliaceae • Native: Tropical
Life Cycle: Annual • Classification: House plant • Leaf Arrangement: Alternate • Leaf Shape: • Leaf Margin: Entire • Vein Pattern: Pinnate • Leaf Type: Compound
LEAF • Length 8” to 12” • Width 6” to 8” PLANT • Height 4’ - 5’ • Width 3’ - 4’ • Upright
Flower Color: Insignificant • Root: Fibrous • Fruit: None • Environment: Part shade-shade • Growth: Medium • Zones: 10
DESCRIPTION • Has 8 - 9 leaflets • cv. Form with creamy white variegated foliage available
CULTURAL PRACTICES • 55° F. night • Propagate by seed or air layer • Semi-shade